people became aware of their abilities and strengths and. there was an outpouring of confidence. just. w. . this . coming up on the program. last. only. forty five percent of the population why does the continue to remain.

the accidental island thailand's floor has become a symbol of the fight to save the metro forests protecting the country's coastline . welcome to the venues asia it's good to have you with us for the first time in ten years people across. seems like the one behind me. of the of a brutal civil war these came alive on sunday on the island nation suicide attacks on churches and hotels on easter sunday have left at least two hundred ninety dead nearly double that figure. some though had narrow escapes for themselves and their families. because.

i mean you. look at. it a heavy bag. and i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out the back door but when i arrived at the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. yes really said you know. it's going to be a he. says not just. it's a pretty gross to something. and if you turn your brain you know innocent people would be very stupid. species do you suspect this is just. they won't. mean anything to. innocent people. but these innocent people died on an island ride with communal religious and political john tensions just next month in fact you learn covered ten years since the end of a civil war between time rebels and the government

a wall that left more than one hundred thousand dead but in the u.s. since then sri lanka has also witnessed increased religious strife last year of violence against muslims in central bank i was blamed on an increase in bull deuced nationalism christians too have been targets of hatred the national christian evangelical alliance of sri lanka that represents more than two hundred churches reported eighty six incidents of violence and harassment against christians last year for reference christians make up less than eight percent of the population in sri lanka seventy percent blood tests for more i'm joined by rocky for number one human rights activist in colombo rookie you've written about the increasing harassment of the christian community has been featured in recent months and years what is the cause of. really i think i'm thinking it's on the house for you to work eventually. and some other people see in the media

just relax fire you think maybe. that thing that. you've got people churches every. other days of trying to gently to their own good. and all. as being one of the shells well actually there is a constitutional right for me to get the contract out on the ship beyond being that if i were king and that got me fired because i didn't like stoning to damaging property assaulting again you could be standing up for some kind of threatening to be there at the end of the project by shouting gatherings i was like churches basically to be struck that to me then you see in project opening b.c.'s in the last. last eleven sundays but also throughout the last the way. but it's not just the christians living dog it it's also muslims also facing harassment.

that are being on our backs on the move so what these are minority coming to communicating straight line by going to expand. our youth team that i love the structure not. the mosque. using it happening rob be able to the needy and all that goes. back around and like i would come out where they are suffering violence against muslims the really tough especially the number a small area of all the things i mean happening and i think. that i do not respect . going to be facing but again for the law and the right. thing to describe. as having been conducted by religious extremists do you think religion. and to me no divides as you describe them but exist in sri lanka could be exploited to create further division. seems like that to me because i think

days on it but. the movement community. and i. need an opportunity to go away. from. people who are put to be movin out a few days from pakistan because they can win for fiction that they are a bunch of bull but he didn't and i think that it would be interesting that any critic not going to respond to what i want to carry in sri lanka i recently read that the movement community has been bitten by. the deed i mean but also from. the group and what it meant to be at the end of the militant thing you. do and they have been very patient and there's been no while an uprising from the movie writing is very. friendly and it was him committed to letting him make it strikes but to protect a muslim coming to you right now thanks very much for speaking to us forgiven and

our human rights activists speaking to us from colombo thank you. next to india or the emergency behind me is a snapshot of its most sacred gravelle the ganja is called the god in india but that is also polluted everything about the indian government's national mission which implements its a gun got cleaned up plan estimates a profit three billion liters of sewage and does that have every day of this only about one billion liters is treated this is in addition to a report from last year that says the ganders account is the sixth highest amount of plastic debris in the world into the oceans die a sadistic foot of other supports eleven states and india and about forty three percent of the country's population as it meanders its way from the him on there as in the north to the bay of bengal in the east. today on global terror of action on the environment the network is spearheading an initiative to clean up the iconic

river beginning high up in the mali house before moving downstream to towns and cities that lined the ganders. from over joined now by very high in delhi he's the founder of the indian environmental group. raymond good to have you with us now you founded switch back in two thousand to work on the river young which is a tribute to the of the ganders what has been the experience with trying to clean up the young. city experience is being of course very very overwhelming when we actually started out look at years ago there was very little conversation not gunshy it out there it was all of that magic about and civil society and the other city action around river bodies or not you should have environments all the support has been a lot belling the impact it is of even now to do has been well let me but there it unfortunately remains ask you to does it boil or perhaps it's local you've done it

well in two thousand so. better not to do but i realised today that. speaking about the dangers now the national green tribunals india's environmental court has repeatedly criticized the government saying that not much has been done and the dendrites river continues to be polluted why do you think that is. see the thing is that the door to lend a bit of oil is almost a dozen five hundred kilometer almost imagine five hundred million people who depend on this one river what they want to as well as for every other what of that sense given the guy not bad or relevance that got has not wait for you because the relevance or critical relevance that that should ideally be we've seen since one thousand nine hundred three the false time that there was going to actually have been several separate public interest litigation steps been there in the course of my country but respective governments all these. you know none of them

have actually been up to the misfired you don't understand that you state governments don't understand their duty and this federal government also does not and the desperation in dr white guys important lack of critical bill and a lack of governance is the prime need to reason. is so polluted if you want to offer a way forward what needs to be done to improve the situation. i think we need to have the centralised solution to this problem of pollution big see that haven't worked in the country be they need to have decent lives what can management be also we need to look at how do we eat feedings because almost fifty percent of water is used forty degree shoe and that's not really. the enough of it there for the time being but thank you very much for speaking to us and not mentalist remember just behind us from delhi thank you. riddick an hour to thailand and the battle against

encroaching see a combination of climate change industrial farming and rapid rise are from has vors to countries fragile coastline and the mangrove forests the protective result a quarter of thailand's trolls are voting away i think coastal communities and calls to landmarks. so much in ministry thirty years ago the buddhist temple stood in the middle of a village today it's surrounded by sea the villagers fled years ago rebuilding their homes on higher ground but one man refuses to budge that. if the temple were moved people would know they used to be one here that was destroyed. but if we stay and we gradually develop we can go on. the abbot and he's floating temple have become symbols in the fight to restore thailand's foster writing coast

. vast mangrove forests used to hold the shows together but they've been disinvited to make way for shrimp and salt farms. there's now a rush to restore the fragile ecosystem these volunteers have come from bangkok to help replant the coastal forests and hold the rosen which also threatens the thai capital. also disappearing. some of the remarks are now submerged just two kilometers from where people live. coastal communities have built bamboo barriers and cement pylons to hold back the advancing see some even reporting success but for abbott there's little hope peace floating temple dry land again. that story and more now.

on facebook as well. that's a bit of a win either with images of mourning from around the world for the victims of the easter sunday or that's what's going on at least two hundred ninety people have been killed and more than fifty five hundred injured in court if it's worse or bombings across the island comes with time but. i'm scared that the they were not hard and in the end is a me you are not a lot of the year and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers were liars of the what's your story.

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enough work around for millions of young bright. is the seed of your business and this is the monday i was in berlin welcome first to japan where local media reports a foeman nessun ball scholars go on has been indicted again by tokyo prosecutors this time for aggravated breach of trust it would be the fourth charge against him since he was. misconduct has denied all allegations against him go on briefly one is freedom on bail in march but was arrested and jailed again on the allegations of sending millions of dollars from this on to accounts he controls. let's bring in southeast asia financial correspondent. what's behind this have these reports been confirmed and what exactly are the new charges against gone well.